Live and Become (2005) on Netflix
In famine-stricken Ethiopia, a Christian mother gives her nine-year-old son to an Ethiopian Jewish woman bound for Israel. He travels as her own son, under the name Schlomo.
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Plot summary
The Falashas of Ethiopia are recognized as Jews, and a secret airlift known as Operation Moses carries them from a refugee camp in Sudan to Israel. A Jewish woman's son has just died when the transport is called. She takes a nine-year-old Christian boy in his place and gives him her son's name, Schlomo; his own mother, facing famine, urges him to go so that he may have a future. In Israel he lives among Ethiopian Jews as one of them and must keep his origins hidden. He grows up in an adoptive family that faces prejudice along with him, and he secretly writes to the mother he left behind.
Cast
- Moshe Abebeas Schlomo adolescent
- Moshe Agazaias Schlomo enfant
- Sirak M. Sabahatas Schlomo adulte
- Yitzhak Edgaras Le Qès Amara
- Rami Danonas Papy
- Mimi Abonesh Kebedeas Hana - la mère Juive Ethiopienne
- Raymonde Abecassisas Suzy
